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Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I wanted to get printer photo paper for my printer, a Canon. I went to Walmart, They had nothing. Went to Target, they had one pack of photo paper and it was crazy expensive, so I went to micro center. That one was just as expensive. So finally I went back to Amazon, which I was trying to avoid, and saw the price 25 to 40% lower than anywhere I had been. Literally everything that I was looking for, I could find within seconds. Not even Best buy has even close to the amount of inventory or variety, even when you're shopping online....

Therefore, I think Amazon has a literal monopoly in the tech industry right now, you're literally forced to buy from them, because unless you have the money and financial fortitude to protest with your wallet, you're going to be buying from them. There's no other choice. They have so aggressively and dominantly taken over the supply chain market that no other tech company can currently compete with them in any aspect at all. You will be paying 40 to 50% more on everything by cutting out Amazon, and no one has the money for that anymore unless you're upper middle class or above

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[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Have you tried buying from aliexpress? It's the same products as on Amazon, but directly from the supplier. Imagine Amazon, but everything's 50% off.

Source: I'm cheap as heck and buy random trash from them

[–] ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OP wants to support the US economy more - funnelling money directly to Chinese sellers definitely won't do that and is arguably even worse than supporting Amazon (who at least employ Americans).

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“OP wants to pay an American middleman to import the Chinese junk for him”

[–] ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Either way, it still puts at least some money in American pockets. The reality of buying everything you need in life as American made is long dead.